Business

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 21, 2022 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 963’s trading results showed consideration of $39,736,950 from 127,707 shares traded in 21 transactions as compared to session 962’s trading results which showed consideration of $25,726,216 from 64,544 shares traded in 33 transactions.

Having just a few months ago undertaken a working visit to Region Nine where we conducted extensive interviews with businessmen and women from various economic sectors and with other sections of the community, the Stabroek Business was able to secure an enhanced understanding of the circumstances of the region, including its economic potential and some of the challenges that continue to suppress economic growth in the region.

Not long ago, any verifiable information from reliable sources that the Guyana economy had been registering anything above the level of its customary year-by-year underwhelming performance would have been sufficient cause for robust media-driven official celebrations.

Having been denied both the festivities and the valuable financial windfall that attends the Rupununi Rodeo on account of two successive years of postponement arising out of the coronavirus pandemic, residents and the business community in Region Nine are in high spirits following the disclosure that the authorities had cleared the staging of the hinterland’s most popular entertainment event over this Easter weekend.

The energy news site oilprice.com is projecting that Guyana will be pumping more than one million barrels of oil daily by 2027 and that the returns therefrom will deliver “a tremendous economic windfall for one of South America’s most impoverished nations.”

As Guyana’s oil and gas sector seeks to build, incrementally, on its accomplishments since the first oil find in May 2015, companies associated with the sector continue to roll out orientation and training programmes designed to position Guyanese to benefit more from openings in the sector.

As a creative being, Natasha David has arguably as much as any other Guyanese artist, won the right to ‘talk up’ her work.

Even as the Guyana authorities continue to pull out the proverbial stops to try to keep at least part of continues to be a declining sugar industry alive, one of the Caribbean’s leading academics, Barbadian Historian Sir Hilary Beckles, is advocating that his country move to leave sugar behind for the sake of the nation’s health.

WASHINGTON, United States – Economies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are on track to recover from the COVID-19 crisis, but the scars of the pandemic remain and the need for a more dynamic, inclusive and sustainable growth is ever more urgent, according to a new World Bank report, “Consolidating the Recovery, Seizing Green Growth Opportunities”.

Earlier this month the Russian bauxite giant RUSAL, executed its first export in almost a month on account of the hobbling of the company’s operations as a consequence of Russia’s invasion of  Ukraine, according to shipping data placed in the public domain.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 7, 2022

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 962’s trading results showed consideration of $25,726,216 from 64,544 shares traded in 33 transactions as compared to session 961’s trading results which showed consideration of $39,899,753 from 104,120 shares traded in 47 transactions.

There can be no question that the advent of an oil and gas sector and the attendant international attention that it has brought Guyana has dramatically opened up the country to external interest that is attended mostly by upbeat assessments of its investment potential.

The telling two-year absence of the widely supported local product display event, UNCAPPED, will come to an end at month end, with the return of the event conceptualized and afterwards successfully executed by the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association.

It was a landmark moment in the leadership role which local fashion icon and business mentor Sonia Noel plays in the lives of emerging entrepreneurially-bent women over several years.